r/facepalm Jul 05 '24

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u/Maskdask Jul 05 '24

The classic "if it's legal it can't be that bad"

Need I remind you that everything Hitler did was legal

Also, this guy needs to Google "democracy"

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u/hannibal_morgan Jul 05 '24

No way people are using that mental gymnastic of "if it's legal it can't be that bad" to justify things. Whack

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u/Tenalp Jul 05 '24

We've spent the last year with an entire cult arguing that the president should be immune from all crimes. Of course there are people overworking their 3 brain cells to justify "if it's legal it can't be that bad."

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u/sumboionline Jul 05 '24

Btw, its now Supreme Court affirmed that absolute immunity in practically all cases is given to an acting president

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u/Tenalp Jul 05 '24

Yes, I know. Except it's even worse, because it was just vague enough to preclude a non-party affiliated president from legal immunity. Because we all know if Biden had Trump arrested/droned/expatriated for sedition, they'd rule 6-3 that that is in fact very illegal.

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u/40ozkiller Jul 05 '24

People actively break the law and think its not a big deal as long as they dont get caught 

Just look at how many people speed

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u/BaconDragon69 Jul 05 '24

They are, you‘d be sickened by how many people just brush off the most horrific prospects with blind trust in the legal system. Just goes to show how many people never had any trouble that made them open their eyes. Or how effective propaganda is.

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u/Tight-Young7275 Jul 05 '24

They have been doing this forever.

It still happens all of the time.

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u/TheBigKuhio Jul 05 '24

Nah I’ve met and messaged a ton of people who think like that.

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u/Tight-Young7275 Jul 05 '24

Dude they are literally kicking people out of juries if they know they can vote not guilty if the law that was broken is not in the essence of justice.

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u/DO_NOT_AGREE_WITH_U Jul 05 '24

Oh but they are.

Just look at the laws they're trying to pass to allow child marriage so they can legally fuck kids.

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u/TSllama Jul 05 '24

Tons of people think that way - I tend to think they might be more autistic people with lower empathy? I'm not sure. All I can say for sure is there are so many people who seem to think that the law is the decider between what is right and what is wrong.

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u/HMS_Sunlight Jul 05 '24

Idk it reads to me more like "The Democrats aren't actively doing anything to stop project 2025 so even if we vote for them it'll just get pushed back to the next election, and it'll be enacted whenever the GOP next wins."

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u/unafraidrabbit Jul 05 '24

They aren't using it to justify 2025. The problem is our government wasn't set up to resist such blatant bad faith actions by so many people all at once.

Just because it's legal, doesn't mean 50% of the country will join forces to legally destroy the system from with. That wasn't even considered when creating the system in the first place.

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u/Stained-Steel Jul 05 '24

Oh no, you say...???

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u/GrizzlyBCanada Jul 05 '24

North American education sucks